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Friday, October 30, 2015

On October 21we were
sent a link to an audio recording which was posted on the Face book page “Río
Bravo Zona De Peligro”.

While there is no way
for us to verify its authenticity, there has been a development that makes it worthwhile to post the story.

Translation
of the audio narrative

This is difficult but
what makes sense is that there are 2 lines of communication going on
simultaneously. I believe there is the
cell phone communication between CDG comandantes Chiricuas and Wero (guero) Cleofas,
and also an open radio frequency communication with comandante
Toro which is referred to but Toro is unheard. (Julian Manuel "Comandante Toro"
Loisa Salinas)

In the recording Chiricuas is off the rails high and does most the
speaking. At first there is a little
banter back and forth, Chiricuas then says
that Los Zetas cartel is back in Cuidad Mier.

Mier a border city in Tamaulipas was the site of the 2010 CDG/Zetas
massive combat over control of it and other cities. This was at the time of the split between the
two former allies. Mier was ground zero
of the battle. It was the first Mexican
city where citizens were told to leave or be killed. In the mass exodus that followed, thousands
of families had nowhere to go, and shelters were set up in nearby cities such
as San Miguel Aleman. BB administrator
Chivis Martinez and her foundation took supplies to the Mier SMA shelter, read
about that troubling experience by linking here.

In the audio, car bombs are
discussed. Chiricuas tells Wero of the
plans to detonate car bombs in the vehicles of the Fuerza Tamaulipas. He says this is for retaliation of the heavy
hits against Metros (CDG) of Reynosa by the Fuerza.

Reporter: Proceso Redaction
Elements of the Army and the Federal Police detained Eric Ullises Ramirez, Mayor of Cocula, and Adan Casarrubias Salgado, one of the leaders of the criminal group "Guerreros Unidos".

Ramirez and Casarrubias were drinking alcohol when detained. The armed forces also confiscated two rifles, a handgun and packet of cocaine.

They were detained in Cuernavaca, Morelos, together with Eloy Flores, an assessor from the PRD parliamentary group in the House of Deputies.

Last February, the
Intelligence Division of the Federal Police obtained information revealing that
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had intended to escape the Federal
Altiplano Prison.

Reforma reports that Mauricio
Enriquez, a member of that division and one of the agents monitoring (with
audio) Guzman from Mexico City, said in his declaration to the PGR agency that intelligence
captured a prisoner talking about the escape Chapo Guzman was planning.

In February 2015,
information was captured on audio intelligence, from the prison area of Special
Treatments. It was protected witness, Jose Jorge Balderas Garza, "El JJ", (left) who said that "El Chapo" Guzman was planning to escape. This information was forwarded directly, in
writing, to prison director, Valentin Cardenas Lerma. The agent confirmed that the director
received the report.

Cardenas Lerma is now
incarcerated for her suspected role in El Chapo’s July prison escape.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Saida
De La Torre said she hopes the Mexican soldiers who wounded her and her
daughter will be held responsible. She said the Mexican government promised to
help fix her bullet-riddled SUV. De La Torre hopes they keep their word.

Both
mother and daughter were hit by flying bullets. De La Torre said the incident
happened when she was visiting family in Camargo, Mexico.

“I
was going to pick up my oldest daughter and was on the road, when we heard gun
shots,” De La Torre said. “I told my cousin that we needed to go back to my
parent's house, because it looked like something was going down. When I made a
turn, I saw a vehicle with soldiers traveling really fast.”

De La
Torre said she saw a black vehicle speeding by. It looked similar to her Dodge
Nitro. She pulled over until the road was clear, and then she headed back to
her parents’ home.

Out
of nowhere, soldiers reappeared. They were right behind De La Torre.

“Everything
seemed to be normal while I was driving back, but then I heard gun shots
again,” De La Torre said.

Reporter: Ivan Gaxiola
La Paz, BCS. The Governor of Baja California Sur, Carlos Mendoza Davis, reported that he has sought the help of the State Dept of the United States to combat crime in the peninsular, he also said that the collaboration could include " equipment and infrastructure, until we have the capacity and the learning".

"We have made an invitation, and I hope it will materialize in the next few days, in order for the people of the State Dept, set up in Mexico, they can come here and get to know us, carry out a revision and diagnostic, and supervise and see where, we can inside of the points of the Merida Initiative, well, to synergize in order to be able to receive and give support and security in Baja California Sur ", said the Governor.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Amecameca, Mexico October 26, 2015— Residents from three locations
located in the volcano area took security into their own hands in their
communities; carrying out armed guard duty.

Residents of Santa Isabel Chalma and San Francisco Zentlalpan, villages
belonging to the municipality of Amecameca, and San Antonio Tlaltecahuacán, of
the municipality of Tlalmanalco, have carried out guard duty since last week
along the main entrances of the communities in order to keep out assailants.

(Valor: Amecameca is a municipality located between Mexico City and the Iztaccíhuatl
and Popocatépetl volcanos.)

In Santa Isabel Chalma, armed with shotguns, machetes, and farm tools,
villagers roam the streets and placed checkpoints in order to detect the
presence of assailants and suspicious people.

They warned that justice will be done with the first thief that they
arrest and rejected the order of the director of the municipal police of
Amecameca to suspend their vigilance.

“We’ll do it as long as necessary, until we catch a thief or put an end
to so many assaults on the streets, we’ve had it up to here, the assailants don’t
respect anyone in the village,” said José, a 53 year old farmer and one of the
leaders of the movement.

In San Antonio Tlaltecahuacán, the neighbors of the warnings passed the events
and from Friday, October 23, night guards began armed with weapons and tools
that they used in the fields in order to confront criminals.

In a statement, the Attorney General's Office (PGR) reported Monday that the arrest took place after the Third District Judge Federal Criminal Proceedings in the Federal District issued an order of provisional detention for international extradition.

According to federal government sources, Hernandez, 38, is linked to a cell of the Juarez Cartel.

According to the arrest warrant, “La Muñeca”, a Mexican national, is required by the judge of the Western District of Texas, USA since 2013 and she was sentenced on charges of conspiracy to import five kilograms or more of cocaine.

An anonymous call to the police tipped off authorities about four abandoned coolers at a bus stop in the road fron OjoCaliente to Luis Moya, two municipalities located on the border with the state of Aguascalientes, inside the coolers there were four human heads.

Along with the cooler, the officers found narco banners with the following message.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Seven bodies were found in the state of Sonora, right next to the border with the United States, the victims had bullets holes from a high power rifles, so far only one has been identified.

The exact spot where the bodies were found is called El Sasabe, in the Saric municipality, and is a place where access is possible only by all terrain vehicles. It is also an access point to the United States for its desert climate conditions and the lack of human settlements is constant, becoming almost imperceptible.

Only one victim was identified, relatives identified Cipriano Obeso Berrelleza, 38, originally from Caborca ​​a neighboring Municipality of Altar, who was last seen on Saturday October 17 and who was reported missing on Wednesday 21 .

Reporter: Proceso Redaction
Arturo Diaz Diaz, alleged financial operator of the Cartel headed by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was detained in the capital, under an arrest warrant with end of extradition.

Diaz Diaz cooperated with the PGR, he was responsible for the financial activity of a cell of the Sinaloa Cartel headed by Adelmo Niebla Gonzalez, "El Senor" or "El G3", who in May of 2014 escaped from Culiacan Prison also utilizing a tunnel. (see link to article on the escape translated by Siskiyou Kid from BB Forum and posted by Chivis).

The colossal mess and failure of Mérida

Reforma is reporting
the United States has again blocked a portion of funds due to be given to
Mexico through the Merida Initiative.The initiative was established to support Mexico in funds and equipment,
in its fight against drugs.

The U.S. with withhold
15% (5M)of the total annual budget allocated, until the State Department issues a
certification that Mexico has met the human rights standards.

The U.S. decided on this
action in part based on the Iguala case of the killing and kidnapping of 49
persons on September 26-27, 2014. 43 of
the 49, mostly normalistas, are missing and presumed dead, ( the majority
of people in Mexico are discounting the official explanation by the Enrique
Peña Nieto administration).

Other cases are of extrajudicial
killings such as the 22 in Tlatlaya. And 16 in Apatzingán, Michoacán where
police were heard saying “mow them down like dogs” when killing or injuring the
unarmed citizens including children. Some photos reveal a few of the citizens, with the only weapon they had in their vehicles, sticks. Citizens reported federal police of planting
the few weapons shown in photos.

The US government
significantly strengthened its partnership with Mexico in combating organized
crime in 2007 when it announced the Merida Initiative, a multi-year US security
assistance package for Mexico. Aside
from funds, the U.S. has provided equipment and training.

Since the 2008 onset,
the United States congress highlighted the importance of tying in assurances
that Mexico respect human rights from the outset, US Congress recognized the
importance of ensuring that the Mexican government respect human rights in its
public security efforts, thereby mandated that 15% of funding be withheld of
Merida funds until the State Department issued a report to the US Congress
which showed that Mexico had demonstrated it was meeting four human rights
requirements.

This morning Borderland
Beat was told that that singer had arrived at 6:36 a.m. and was scheduled to face a judge at a bail hearing on Saturday,
but less than 3 hours later the suspect faced the judge when the hearing was
moved up to 11 a.m.

The judge imposed a set bail in the amount of $200,000.

Under the conditions of
bail, Hernandez was allowed to return to his Southern California home in West
Covina, but must report to the court every two weeks and submit to random drug
testing.

“Larry Hernandez was
also ordered to surrender his passport and forbidden to have any contact with
the victim or any other co-defendants,” said Police Chief Roy McClurkin

Hernandez’s charges
stems from an Aug. 17 event where the
victim alleges he was held against his will by individuals associated with a
concert at a Newberry skating rink.

The right hand man of the plaza Boss from La Paz, Baja California Sur was executed by 10 shots in Colonia Cucas in Culiacan.

On Friday morning Alejandro Sánchez Trejo "El Frank", "El Frane" or "El Alex" was executed, he is considered by federal authorities as the right hand man for Jose Fernando Torres Montenegro "El Pepillo" the plaza leader of drug dealing in the South Zone of the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur.

"El Pepillo's" lieutenant was executed just 10 meters of a ballroom owned by him in the corner of Alvaro Obregon and Solon Zabre in Colonia Cucas in the Sinaloa capital.

Reporter: Proceso Redaction
A narco tunnel of 800 metres by 3 metres was discovered in the frontier between Tijuana and San Diego, California this past Wednesday by elements of the Federal Police and the Centre for National Security Investigations (cisen).

In the operation, the armed forces detained 16 alleged narco traffickers, one from Tijuana and the rest from Sinaloa, that were operating for the CJNG and were about to transport 10 tonnes of Marijuana in packets to the United States.

The discovery, signalled the National Commission for Security and Communication, was the product of weeks of investigative work in the office and field.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

The search for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was extended today to a house of his wife Emma Coronel Aispuro, located in the Hidalgo neighborhood of Culiacan Sinaloa.

Staff of the Attorney General's Office (PGR), in coordination with members of the Secretariat of the Navy, stormed and searched Thursday morning two houses, one in Amado Nervo Street between Columbus and Escobedo, owned by the couple's most wanted fugitive.

The Hidalgo colony is located east of the capital of Sinaloa, very near the center as it was reported on RioDoce Web Site.

For several months, Owen Michael Hanson had been talking to the feds, unknowingly, at this point. He bragged about collecting drug debts, his sailboat, private investigators, false passports, his homes in Mexico, his contacts, enforcers, and the price point of cocaine sold in Australia, for up to 150k a kilo, sales that he allegedly coordinated with Australian businessmen and Mexican trafficking organizations. Authorities alleged he ordered a 5 kilogram meth deal, the day before he was arrested by FBI agents in the parking lot of a Hyatt Hotel & Resort golf course.

Owen Michael Hanson, 33, was perhaps not destined for any of this. A privileged child with affluent parents, he was raised in the Redondo Beach area, a wealthy beach community near Los Angeles. His father is attempting to put up a 1.5 million dollar property as a cash surety bond to secure his sons release from federal custody. The district judge has refused, as prosecutors outline a picture of a successful drug trafficker, with far ranging assets.

Hanson, like many privileged LA youth attended USC, (without scholarship) after graduating from Redondo Union High, he majored in public planning, management, and and planning. He played on the USC Trojans as a tight end, and also mens volleyball in the early 2000's. A strained knee injury benched him, and he graduated in the mid 2000's, and went on to form 310 Development, a real estate development corporation. He married a Mexican citizen, and had two children with her before he was 20.

At some point, Hansen, involved himself, or became involved with the events chronicled in Part One. I imagine he partied a lot, coke, trips to Vegas, abroad, gambling, women, and the circles that comes with, and he became involved with Andrew McManus, and Sean Carolan, and an even wider circle of traffickers, money launderers, and distributors. Hansen's sprawling modern home in Redondo Beach, on a lot purchased by his father in 1985 was the subject of a piece for South Bay magazine.

In 2006, a Texan
named Edgar Valdez Villarreal was at an inflection point in his
drug-smuggling career. Valdez was thirty-three and known as La Barbie
for his blond hair and blue eyes, the fair-skinned look that Mexicans
call güero. A former high-school linebacker from Laredo, he had
spent about fifteen years shipping marijuana, and later, cocaine, to
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. During the late
nineteen-nineties, he was one of many smugglers operating across the
border, in Nuevo Laredo, the largest inland port in Mexico. The drug
trade had been relatively peaceful. Each smuggler paid sixty thousand
dollars a month to the local plaza boss, a man named Dionisio García,
known as El Chacho, who in turn paid the bribes that insured the
trafficking routes.

But in 2000,
the Gulf cartel began to take over Nuevo Laredo, and gave every crook in
town an option: join or die. El Chacho was killed, and La Barbie fled
to Acapulco. He joined a clan from western Mexico, the Beltrán-Leyva
brothers, who were associates of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, led by
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo. La Barbie prospered with the
Beltrán Leyva cartel, a group of four brothers led by Arturo Beltrán
Leyva, known to authorities as A.B.L. Government sources say the group
imported about forty tons of coke per month through the southern port at
Zihuatanejo. La Barbie, together with the Beltrán Leyvas and the
Sinaloans, warred against the Gulf cartel for control of Nuevo Laredo.
La Barbie orchestrated a bold public-relations campaign on behalf of his
crew: he placed newspaper ads and editorials denouncing their rivals,
and was supposedly responsible for making a viral video documenting the
execution of four assassins who’d been sent to Acapulco to kill him.
Soon, he acquired a global reputation as a top player. But by 2006, as
the new Mexican President, Felipe Calderón, promised an assault on drug
cartels, it became clear that La Barbie’s side had lost.

Reporter: Michoacan 3.0 Redaction
There are six towns in the State of Michoacan where the first elements arrived, both Military and Federal, with the mandate to open a front against the criminality, informed the a member of the Secretary of the Government, Adrian Lopez Solis.

They are, Morelia, Uruapan, Zitacuaro, Sahuayo, Huetamo and La Piedad, these represent places where, they have deployed Military and Federal forces, after being considered high risk area in criminal incidents.

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Those in charge of the internal politics of the State, did not give specific number of forces deployed to the towns during this weekend, however they did declare that the deployment of troops would be gradual.

Mexican military elements search an address where the family of El Chapo's brother Miguel Angel lives. The brother is in prison.

In the search for Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias "El Chapo" Guzman, the Navy extended its operations to residential areas of the state capital, where they are executing search warrants, one of them, was in the Chapultepec neighborhood where the family of Miguel Angel Guzman Loera lives. Chapo's brother, , who is in prison.

With the help of the military aboard armored vehicles that put a security fence around the house with the number 426, on Agricultores Street, members of the Attorney General's Office (PGR) enter the house, where they found two young people.

by Lucio R. for Borderland Beat, much appreciated BB reader for the Reno information, thank you
"C" for your ever present assistance.

A Borderland Beat reader has found the location of singer Larry Hernandez.
He has been in Reno Nevada, on the right is his booking mugshot from Reno taken on
the 16th. He looks worse for the wear in the mugshot and although it is
difficult to tell for sure, he does look like he has dropped some pounds.

A check this morning with Reno’s Washoe County Sheriff's
Office inmate locator reveals he is once again MIA.

And a earlier morning phone
call to Newberry authorities revealed that Hernandez had not
arrived there, the assumption is he is somewhere in-between.

On Wednesday October 14th Hernandez was released from the
custody of San Bernardino County, in Southern California for extradition to
Newberry S.C.

He then was MIA to those interested in his transfer. Daily calls to Newberry county jail turned up
empty of any information other than “he is not here yet”.

The desk sergeant stated that they had received over 100 call of inquiry in
just a couple of days. The fact that the
county inmate search website is under construction and not usable for searches,
has not help matters for the staff at county jail.Hernandez will face charges in Newberry, of kidnapping, third degree assault and battery by mob. The singer is scheduled to face the Judge 24 hours after his arrival.

Reporter surfaces charges the singer of assault, threats and depriving him of his liberty

Reporter: Proceso Redaction
The singer of narco-corridos, Cristian Ivan Miranda Sandoval, 21 years of age, was detained by elements of the State Attorney Generals Office (FGE) with two fire arms.

The events occurred this past weekend in Zapopan, when the Police noticed Miranda Sandoval, who was driving a Cheyenne van in the Bugambillas Colonia, and after affecting a search of his vehicle, they found two pistols, on .38 and one .45 caliber, as well as 11,500 pesos and six cellular phones.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Sometimes
when reading a report or an article, one
will spot “facts” that are not so
factual, leaving the reader questioning the integrity of the
remainder of the story, especially when the article is threaded with
additional, questionable “facts”. Those frustrating articles, leaves dedicated
students of the Mexican drug war, organized crime, and capos, with some head serious head-shaking, due to the absurdity of certain
speculations or reports substantiated from anonymous sources.

For starters, CNN is reporting that 3 days before a confrontation with
Mexican Marina (Navy) Chapo was seen riding motorcycles with a son, and with
another riding in a Ferrari. The CNN
report also alluded to 3 weeks earlier “Chapo’s son” tweeted a photo with his
son while they were dining al fresco at an eatery. CNN did not say the location of the dining setting,
only that the photo depicts “El Chapo brazenly eating at a restaurant.” When the photo went viral it named Costa Rica as
the location.

CNN didn’t name the
son, but the young man in the photo, did not appear to be any one of the sons previously
identified as being El Chapo’s.

Issues such as
that, and the use artistic liberty, can be fed to most people north of the
border, because most people north, use one source to educate themselves
on Mexico drug war issues and news and
that is U.S. mainstream media.

Chapo is many things, but stupid is not even on the mile long list. And he
is an astute student in learning lessons from mistakes. He was captured in 2014 after he became a little
complacent with his security, making more frequent trips down off the mountain. And he and his crew,
were remiss with those troublesome cell
phones and radio interceptions the U.S. Drug Administration are so good at.

In the case of Mazatlán, his son and
bodyguard were two of the cell interceptions that aided the capture.

A son of Rubén Salas Barrial, known as "El Chapito" Barrial who happens to be an alleged drug trafficking operator in Sinaloa, was executed last night when he was with his girlfriend in a luxury vehicle near his house in the Urban Development Tres Ríos.

The young 20 year old was identified as Ruben Salas Valdez, while the injured woman was identified as Yatsiel Garcia Diaz, 22, residing in the Santa Margarita area. She was admitted to a private clinic.

According to official reports, the attack occurred at 7:00 pm on Monday night when the young man was driving down the Pedro Coronel street, in the Parque Alameda del Tres Ríos division. The victim lived there.

The lifeless body of the last member of the autodefensas of
Arteaga, Michoacán was found this past Monday.

The discovery of the body was made by residents on the road leading to
the community of Hembrillas.

Local police arrived at the scene, who later confirmed the identity of
the body as Vicente García Farías, 50, lying on the ground.

The body had several gunshot wounds and at the time of his death, he was
wearing his uniform.

Forensic experts from the Attorney General of the State of Michoacán
arrived at the scene accompanied by a public ministry agent who after the
completion of the relevant proceedings, ordered the lifting and transportation
of the body to the local medical examiner where an autopsy will be conducted.

It should be noted that García Farías remained as an autodefensa in
Arteaga after his companions deserted due to not being paid; the man refused to
abandon the cause and stood as the sole and last autodefensa of the
municipality.